Geoenvironmental Engineering News

How to manipulate windmills full power in a large wind farm

Wind turbines convert the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy. As wind farms utilize more and more windmills, their efficiency is significantly reduced. Until recently, wind turbines...

Hayward Baker: Rolling Hills Wind Farm

Hayward Baker’s ability to assemble experienced personnel and resources in-house to perform all techniques under one turnkey contract streamlined the overall ground improvement/foundation installatio...

UK salt-marshes threatened due to sea-level rise

 A new study shows that UK's salt-marshes will be threatened due to sea-level rise by 2100. The researchers use, for the first time, records of past losses and sea-level change in order t...

Earth's first mission for planetary defense

Over the next decade, both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will take the first steps toward a defensive plan against asteroids. The solar system is full of giant asteroids hurtling around,...

East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated little during past 8 million years

Large parts of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet did not retreat significantly during a time when carbon dioxide concentrations were similar to today's levels. Three major ice sheets are being closely w...

Lebanon's mountains are being wiped out

More than 3,000 quarries have ripped apart the mountains and destroyed the natural habitat of Lebanon. The landscape of the country has rather changed due to human intervention. The natural environ...

What is the limit of geoengineering in climate change?

A conversation about the boundaries that need to be established in the experiments of geoengineering has began by experts. Attention is drawn in the field of geoengineering to slow global warming....

Moon is making the days on Earth longer

A study shows evidence that as the distance between Earth and the moon increases year by year, the days are getting longer. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim that moon c...

Cracks open in Hawaii and threaten local house

After dealing with volcanic ash and toxic gasses spewing from the fissures left behind, the residents in the Leilani Estates community have to copy with enormous cracks. Ground cracks are asso...

''Snowball Earth'' triggered by the advent of plate tectonics?

During the Neoproterozoic, a geological era which occurred about 542 million to one billion years ago, Earth experienced unusual episodes of global cooling that geologists refer to as ''Snowball Earth...

News

Featured News

How PLAXIS 2D Helps Explain Rainfall-Triggered Debris Flows

Hot-dip galvanized steel foundations demonstrate corrosion resistance over decades of field service

Côte d'Ivoire state miner SODEMI adopts geophysical software to accelerate mineral exploration

Year in Infrastructure 2026: acknowledging subsurface innovation and excellence